My favorite Chinese restaurant closed, but Earl Buddy Carter lost his primary election here in Georgia. The universe is in balance.

Where in the Constitution does it say that a presidential appointee can give the president the right to cheat on his taxes whenever he wants? This shit is intolerable.

If Buddy Carter gets his ass kicked, I will sleep peacefully tonight.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Why? Why do Dems do this? Why doesn't anybody ask them why they do this?

America, the heist could not be more unhidden. www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...

Important: Dems will seek to force Republicans to vote on a bill blocking Trump's illegal $1.8 billion slush fund, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Dems will use discharge petition. Hakeem Jeffries is supportive of Raskin's efforts, I'm told. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

Let’s get this one right, Georgia. Find your nearest polling station and cast your ballot before 7pm ET: IWillVote.com/GA

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

I so hate the "will you commit" questions. They are meaningless with these people.

NEW: Today's primaries for Georgia governor and secretary of state could set up election deniers to run critical elections in a key swing state in 2028. The top Republican candidates have promoted Trump's false voting claims, including questioning the 2020 result.

🍑 TODAY: Georgia voters head to the polls for the state primaries. There is a series of races that will determine whether gerrymandering that dilutes the power of Black voters will become a permanent feature of their political landscape. Keep an eye on these races:

OK. I kinda believe you catch more flies with honey, but every time I hear a Democrat on a committee suck up to one of these corrupt Republicans, even for a moment, it makes me physically ill.

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

remember when they screeched that cancelling student loan debt was unfair and unconstitutional

Seems like it ought to be a bigger story that Donald Trump is creating a government slush fund to make all the January 6th insurrectionists millionaires.

People died fighting for your Civil Rights. Trump's Supreme Court is playing with the blood of our ancestors.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

On this in 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education decision that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional because it denies children of color the protection of laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. h/t @hcrichardson.bsky.social Image: Bettmann Archive.

Should be a bigger part of the story.

On this day in 1956, white residents of Delray Beach, Florida, burned a cross to terrorize Black residents and prevent them from accessing the city’s segregated public beach.

Cable news hosts jump from topic to topic like a water drop on a hot griddle (I’m looking at you @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social) I wish they would focus and connect the damn dots.

Spot on.

Georgia Democrats had another day of outpacing Republicans, today by 20,000 ballots.

Republicans just voted to spend $152 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars to reopen Alcatraz. I wish I was joking.

Went to drop off an absentee ballot and my polling place was awash with early voters. Did my heart good.

This clemency grant to Tina Peters is an affront to our democracy, the people of Colorado, and election officials across the country. The Governor’s actions today will validate and embolden the election denial movement, and leave a dark, dangerous imprint on American democracy for years to come.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Today, I stood in solidarity with my colleagues in the GA Legislative Black Caucus and Chris Bruce of ACLU of GA to let Gov. Kemp know that we will not go down without a fight in this redistricting process. His legacy will be ushering in Jim Crow era tactics on his way out.

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

Even stronger Democratic turnout in Georgia today. Roughly 67,000 people voted in the Democratic primary today, and roughly 45,350 in the GOP primary. (And 1600 pulled a nonpartisan ballot.) That’s a Dem turnout advantage of 19% today. Early voting ends tomorrow.

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

Huh? “Kennedy, who still attends daily Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to cope with a heroin addiction that gripped him for 14 years …” Good for him, but if true, I have so many questions.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

We covered the Georgia GOP's new law that would make elections for DA and other offices nonpartisan—in just five blue counties around Atlanta. Oh, and all the DAs are Black women. But the precise way the law ensnares these counties hasn't gotten much attention. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

Good lord. THIS is who Trump is endorsing to represent my district in the House? These people are not even remotely serious about governing.

"Black people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any time since the Federal Reserve began its financial wellbeing survey in 2013 ... More notable is the gap between Black people and, in some cases, every other racial and ethnic group recorded." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-p...

This likely violates the Georgia Constitution's uniformity clause.

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

These people are so tiresome. They should just admit they can only win by cheating.

Have mercy. All of this, but the last 4 paragraphs ... And the quote from the House Speaker about the property tax bill: "We'll just have to see how that plays out."

So weird how when it benefits the Dems, the entire year of an election is “too close” according to the GOP, but when it benefits the GOP, one week ahead of an election is just fine for the GOP.

Supreme Court affirms that when it says whites only it means whites only. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

“We didn’t have a roof over our heads — we slept in a parking lot.” Now, this South LA student has 65 college acceptance letters and is heading to Columbia University to study industrial engineering. From that parking lot to the Ivy League. His story will move you. 🙌🏽

BREAKING: SCOTUS acts immediately on Alabama redistricting, vacating earlier decisions blocking the 2023 map and sending cases back to the district court — over the objection of Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

hello! i've been working on a thing (behind the scenes this time) that I'm very excited for you all to hear. Paper Trail - a new podcast hosted by @jlussenhop.bsky.social showcasing @propublica.org's badass investigations. it's going to be really good. come along with us?

"the firm had worked on the swimming pools at his golf club" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...